Machine learning and networking ushering in new era

Jon Oltsik, an analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group in Milford, Mass., looked into potential pitfalls associated with enterprise security teams collecting ever-increasing reams of data. ESG research indicates that 38% of organizations collect more than 10 TB of data every month, primarily from firewall logs, network devices, antivirus and user activity logs. "Let's face it, well-intentioned security teams are being buried by data today. They go through heroic efforts and do what they can, but there is an obvious and logical outcome here: As security data volume grows, security professionals will only be able to derive an incremental amount of value," Oltsik said.